Example sentences of "[pron] were [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Heinrich and I were with each other all the time . |
| 2 | If one wants to be accepted as a mainstream , serious film-maker it does n't strike me , if I were in that position , as a shrewd career move . |
| 3 | In the six months before the recent normal colonoscopy , she had a series of investigations including barium enemas , sigmiodoscopy , and colonoscopy with results which were to some degree conflicting . |
| 4 | Martin Martin ( 1703 ) who wrote his well-documented Description of the Western Islands of Scotland has left a wide and varied record of many of the plant uses which were at that time extant . |
| 5 | The speed reductions would be achieved , by applying at critical points in the network , some of the same sort of Verkehrsberuhigung measures as those which were at that time being installed in the new rest and play areas . |
| 6 | Rational planning was to be achieved by unifying health services , which were at that time split between local authorities , the boards of governors of teaching hospitals , a regional and local administration responsible for other hospitals and the executive councils who administered the contracts for general practitioners ( see Figure 1.1 ) . |
| 7 | And paragraph twelve , erm towards the the middle , erm you can see the sentence in paragraph twelve To my mind , these sites , which were in that top corner lie well beyond the present I 'm so sorry . |
| 8 | If the EEC did wish to go beyond the 1962 agreement on agriculture , the arrangements of which were in any case due to expire in 1965 , if financing was permitted to come from the EEC 's own resources , and if the latter were to be levied on imports , then it was sensible for the EEC budget to come under the control of the European Parliament . |
| 9 | The coming of sound was probably crucial in this respect as it obviously placed a new emphasis on the contemporary American voice and on contemporary settings , which were in any case cheaper than conventional sets . |
| 10 | Some French troops had to be withdrawn from Brittany to pursue and harry Gaunt 's forces , but the diversion of the expedition from its original destination served to embitter relations between Duke John and Gaunt , which were in any case strained after a quarrel between them over the wages due to their troops , and the English garrisons at Brest , Bécherel ( a fortress some twenty miles south of St Malo ) , and Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte were still hard pressed by du Guesclin 's forces . |
| 11 | Focal places have already been considered , but much of the discussion in the past on settlement sites has concentrated on places which were in some way in competition with others for trade , communication or exchange activity . |
| 12 | ‘ Ye were in that room alone with her . |
| 13 | Abruptly she felt as if she were on some kind of mental treadmill , returning to the same overworked grievance . |
| 14 | On balance , she felt enough loyalty to Gilbert and enough concern about Amy to feel that , if she were alive and if she were by any chance a party to her husband 's death , the Church rather than the police should be her first sanctuary . |
| 15 | And she were in that bedroom with us , the there were t there were dad , me , Barbara and Angela . |
| 16 | It was as though she were in some sort of a trance , a pallid undertone to the sun-dark skin , the nostrils of that straight nose slightly flared ; even the jaw seemed to have lost some of its determined thrust . |
| 17 | It was a real shock to the boys who were on that night . ’ |
| 18 | It was well received , and we plan to run some more and invite people who were on that session if they wanted to play a similar role . |
| 19 | The Report began by identifying some 130,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education who were at that time employed by local authorities and although nobody knows how many are employed over the country as a whole at present , even after the severe reductions of recent years they are likely to number more than 100,000 . |
| 20 | ‘ I would like to speak to any spectators who were at that match — particularly if they remember seeing a young girl in the company of an older man . ’ |
| 21 | We 're chasing up two other people who were at that party , and who both seem to have gone out for the day . |
| 22 | First , the Athenians who were dismissed from Ithome for ‘ subversive tendencies ’ were not the Athenians who were at that moment overturning the Areopagus but precisely Kimon and ‘ his ’ hoplites ( but we have no right to assume that he chose them personally ; four thousand are a lot of people to know by name ) . |
| 23 | He fancied being seen with two women who were at each other 's throats . |
| 24 | Similarly the right to grant mulazemets was sometimes used as a means of showing particular honour to individual scholars or of placating those who were for some reason aggrieved . |
| 25 | As a useless item , the name was extended to city dwellers who were of little use when unleashed in the countryside . |
| 26 | The partial remedy , for no one could think of exhaustive response , was to clear London and other big cities of children aged under fifteen , the sick and the handicapped : all those who were of more hindrance than help to the defence effort . |
| 27 | She is pictured with students ( l–r ) Helen Allan , Tim Schaffer , Liz Still and Dee Burrows , who were among this year 's 379 successful IANE graduates |
| 28 | The two Roman catholic priests , who were in all respects dedicated pastors and much liked by many in the local community , immediately opposed the idea , preaching against it at Sunday masses in the local convent and the school hall . |
| 29 | Not quite the poverty of no shoes , of basic and meagre food , no possessions other than the most rudimentary necessities — but too near that for comfort and he knew plenty who were in that condition . |
| 30 | For it became increasingly obvious that it did not , as had been intended , miraculously detect native intelligence in children however uneducated , but , on the contrary , was strongly biased in favour of middle-class children who had larger vocabularies than their working-class contemporaries , and who were in any case accustomed to tests and examinations . |